(a) No single piece of baggage weighing more than 250 pounds required to be checked.

(b) Agents may allow a margin of ten (10) pounds on any one lot of baggage, for possible variation of scales.

(c) Baggage not required to be checked to points short of destination of ticket, except on Winter or Summer Tourist Excursion Tickets or other tickets on which stop-overs are allowed.

(d) Baggage over two hundred pounds is subject to an excess charge equivalent to twenty per cent. of the passenger fare per one hundred pounds, with a minimum charge 30 cents between stations within the State of South Carolina.

(e) All common carriers of passengers in South Carolina, using steam as a motive power, are required by State law to safely transport to the destination of any passenger "personal baggage or sample trunks or sample cases, not to exceed 200 pounds in weight, for any one passenger holding a ticket or paying ordinary passenger fare, free of charge for such personal baggage or sample trunks or sample cases, and shall issue checks for such personal baggage or sample trunks or sample cases on request."

(f) Bicycles and Baby Carriages are deemed baggage under the law of South Carolina; and steam railroads are required to transport same under the same rules as govern trunks and other separate baggage. No crating, cover, locking, boxing or other protection to bicycles or baby carriages shall be required. Railroads are not required to carry more than one bicycle or baby carriage for any one person.

(g) Each piece of baggage or property, either inbound or outbound, checked or not checked, remaining at stations will be stored for the first 24 hours without charge. After the first 24 hours, storage will be charged for the number of days (24 hours) on hand, as indicated in table below, a fraction of a day to be counted as a full day:

Except that baggage or property will be held free when received at any hour Saturday and claimed before same hour the following Monday, or when received at any hour Sunday and claimed before midnight the following Monday. If not claimed within the time specified, storage will commence 24 hours after receipt of the baggage or property. Legal holidays will be treated same as Sundays. When a legal holiday falls on Saturday or Monday, or is observed on either of those days, the Sunday and the legal holiday combined will be treated the same as Sunday. No deduction will be made for Sundays or legal holidays after storage has begun.

Baggage or property remaining unclaimed for sixty days after storage charges have commenced will be forwarded to unclaimed warehouse and there held subject to the following charges:

$2.40 for sixty days' storage at destination station.

60 cents for transfer to warehouse.

90 cents for first thirty days or fraction thereof, warehouse storage.

60 cents for each thirty days or fraction thereof, warehouse storage, thereafter until disposed of at public auction.

Baggage and property delivered at station and which is not checked through to any destination on presentation of proper transportation and which is afterwards called for and removed, will be subject to storage charges from time of receipt, and no free allowance of time will be made. If, however, tickets have been presented for the checking of such baggage or property and have been punched "B" or "BC" no charges for storage will be made unless the owner requests that the "B" or "BC" cancellation be made void.

All baggage is stored at owner's risk.

When by reason of strikes or riots, the removal of baggage is rendered impossible, storage charges accruing under the provisions of this rule will be waived.

ACCIDENTS.

Rule No. 14. Every railroad corporation shall cause immediate notice of any accident which may occur on its road, attended with injury to any person, to be given to the Railroad Commissioners, by telegraph, telephone or such other means as may be the quickest under the circumstances, at the same time that notice is given the officials of the road on which accident occurred, and shall furnish immediate transportation for the Commissioners over its line to the place of accident free of expense to the Commissioners, and if the Commissioners use another railroad to reach the place of accident, the corporation on whose line the accident occurs shall pay the expense of transportation thereon, and shall also give notice in like manner of any accident falling within any description of accidents of which said Commissioners may by general regulation require notice to be given.

Also, every railroad corporation upon whose line any accident may occur, attended with injury to any person or persons, is, in all such cases, required to immediately notify the most accessible physician or physicians, by quickest possible means, of place of accident and require the giving of such medical or surgical attention as the case or cases may require.

CLOSING OR DISCONTINUING DEPOTS, STATIONS AND AGENCIES.

Rule No. 15. Each and every depot, flag stop, station, office and agency, now maintained, conducted or used in South Carolina by any railroad, express or telegraph company doing business in this State, for the transaction of business with the public, is hereby formally established and located at the point and on the premises where the same is now being so maintained and conducted. No such depot, flag stop, station, office or agency, as aforesaid, now established, or that hereafter may be established, pursuant to orders made by the Commission, or voluntarily by such company, or otherwise, shall be closed, removed, suspended, discontinued or abolished, without authority granted by the Commission upon written application; after which a notice to the public shall be posted in a conspicuous place at or near such

depot, flag stop, station, office or agency for not less than 30 days, setting forth the fact that application for such closing, removal, suspension, discontinuance or abolition has been made to the Commission, with date of such application.

FARE FOR CHILDREN.

Rule No. 16. On all railroads a fare of not more than one-half the maximum rate prescribed for adults, shall be charged for children, over six years and under twelve years of age.

MINIMUM FARE.

*Rule No. 17. No railroad company shall be allowed to charge more than five cents as a minimum full or half rate between regular stations when the fare would be less than that amount.

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STANDARD PASSENGER RATES.

*Rule No. 18. The rate for transportation of passengers on all railroads shall not exceed three cents per mile for every mile traveled; and such railroads shall not be required to have secondclass coaches or to sell second-class tickets: Provided, That no railroad shall be required to charge a fare of less than five cents for the entire distance traveled: Provided, however, That any railroad not over forty miles in length and operated independently may be allowed by the Railroad Commission to charge and receive four cents per mile for the transportation of passengers: Provided, further, That any railroad not over twenty-five miles and operated independently may be allowed by the Railroad Commission to charge and receive five cents per mile for the transportation of passengers.

APPLICATION OF SHORT HAUL PASSENGER MILEAGE BETWEEN COMPETITIVE POINTS.

Rule No. 18. (a) That where the same standard fare is legally applicable on two or more railroads between competitive points wholly within the State of South Carolina, the railroads shall

*The Interstate Commerce Commission in its decesion of January 28, 1921, relative to "South Carolina Fares and Charges," has ordered the carriers to increase the minimum fare in South Carolina to 12 cents.

**The Interstate Commerce Commission in its decesion of January 28, 1921, relative to "South Carolina Fares and Charges," has ordered the carriers to increase passenger fares in South Carolina to 3.6 cents per mile and collect a penalty charge of 15 cents from passengers who board a train without a ticket at a point where a ticket might have been purchased.

extract from mileage ticket books only such number of coupons as will not exceed in value the standard fare between such points.

FARE ON CORPSES.

Rule No. 19. Upon a corpse the regular passenger fare may be charged, with a minimum charge of one dollar for the transportation of corpses. If not in good condition, or improperly packed, or not accompanied by a person in charge, the railroad company may decline to receive it.

DISCRIMINATION.

Rule No. 20. All of the various kinds of tickets that may be on sale at any and all other offices of a given railroad company, in any given town or city, shall likewise be kept on sale at the depot ticket office of such railroad company in such town or city, at the same prices.

There shall be no unjust discrimination as to passenger rates in favor of or against any individual or locality: Provided, however, That this rule shall not be so construed as to prevent railroad companies issuing commutation, excursion or mileage tickets as the same are now issued.

NOTICE AS TO OBSTRUCTED TRAINS.

Rule No. 21. Whenever there is, by reason of accident or otherwise, a break or obstruction on any railroad in this State, which will delay any passenger train on said road, it shall be the duty of said road to have the same bulletined at all stations at and between the said passenger train and the place so obstructed, and the conductor shall give notice of said obstruction to the passengers in the cars, before leaving the station, and the delay that will probably be caused by the same.

CINDER DEFLECTORS.

Rule No. 21. (a) Steam railroad companies are required to attach a permanent cinder deflector to windows on all passenger coaches used in this State.

DRINKING INTOXICATING LIQUORS ON TRAINS.

Rule No. 21. (b) The drinking of intoxicating liquors on trains